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Yeah, these things happen on reddit, last year reddit thought Sweden was going to force men to sit down and pee, in reality it was just a proposal from a small party in one county that wanted to make peeing sitting a requirement for just their county council building, it didn't happen and was never going to happen.

It's obviously not meant to be a finite list. It's a popular format of '10 things to do.' catering to regular wants of tourists. Although I've done almost all of these things as a native and they are not as dull as they seemed.

Well, The Guardian is wrong.
Iceland is currently not taking any steps in trying to ban porn.
There was one old "crazy" guy, from one political party that mentioned that he wanted to ban it, and the local media blew it out of proportion (what a shocker!).
Then international media misquoted and/or mistranslated the story to make it sound more shocking and interesting to read (again: what a shocker!).

Edit: Also, he's the minister of interior so it's actually within his purview. He's only a cabinet member because of political favours, just like the rest of any ruling government in this stupid country

They already banned strip clubs based on feminist propaganda didn't they? It wouldn't surprise me one bit if they banned porn, the womens are objectified, degraded, it's against their civil rights dur dur dur...

honestly the game was much more exciting in 2005-2007, now it's just too bloated with too much player run bureaucracy and very little to do for independent players, or those that don't just want to blindly follow orders all day

in a way, 2005-7 was the Wild West of American history, where gangs of cowboys could raise hell and be feared. Nowadays, those types are completely irrelevant, power is held by those who manage to control largest amount of territory and manage largest number of people - sort like corporations. Power struggle are slow paced and most leaders fall not because of military might of the enemy, but because of spies and sabotage that destroys the leader's reputation and trust of the organization. It's all political mind fuck

It's not exactly a start, but I learned a few words here and there from listening to Sigur Ros, mum, and a couple other icelandic artists. Given, half the time Sigur Ros sings in a made-up gibberish language, but they still sing in Icelandic in most songs.

Thing is Icelandic is a Germanic language, like Swedish, Norwegian, German, Danish and Faroese, and if I remember correctly English is somehow related to the Germanic language base, which explains some familiarity you might have between the languages.

As an example, halló/hæ, geysir, vatn.

Fun fact: the letters Þ (thorn) and Ð (eth) were taken into Icelandic from the Anglo-Saxon alphabet.

Z was abolished in the 70s and it was decided to just use S whenever Z had been used. Like the word for Icelandic was "Íslenzka" but is now "Íslenska". Kind of weird how they decided to simplify that part of the language when there are like 100 other rules and exceptions.

I'd rather have my kid (if that ever happens) be exposed to sex things than violence things if it were to be a choice of either. We think we are protecting "our kids" from this stuff but all we are doing is hiding it so we don't have to explain it.

You don't have anything to worry about. "Iceland" isn't considering banning anything. It was just a proposal from an old kranky politician and will never amount to anything. It's like if Michelle Bachmann would say something stupid and the international media would report it as "America considering banning same-sex marriage".

Instead of saying "Now that porn has been banned there is nothing to do in Iceland" you are instead saying "Understand that there is nothing to do in Iceland..." and then kinda leaving everyone on a cliff.

Actually theres shed loads of research on how damaging pornography is to the human brain. It also desensitizes people to an extent that they need more and more hardcore porn to a point that they get off on rape and violence against women. a block on internet porn would mean that its a lot harder for children to access, and adults could still get videos.

As a woman, knowing how popular violent videos are, how am I supposed to be able to walk the streets at night and feel safe? Porn is so far removed from actual sex, how are young people supposed to understand that it's not really like that, and that most women don't want to be treated like that?
I have respect for the politician that voiced their concerns about the issue. Ready for downvote town...